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      Humor e discriminação por orientação sexual no ambiente organizacional Translated title: Humor and sexual orientation discrimination in organizational context

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          Em face da multiplicidade de manifestações sociais no mundo organizacional, o humor se destaca como forma de comunicar algo, mesmo que não explícito, aparando arestas e suavizando críticas e agressões, sob o pretexto de provocar o riso. Neste artigo o objetivo é analisar o humor como forma de manifestação da discriminação por orientação sexual no ambiente de trabalho. Para isso, com base em literatura especializada sobre as funções sociais, denotativas e conotativas do humor e a inserção profissional de homossexuais masculinos e femininos no meio profissional foi conduzida uma pesquisa qualitativa com trabalhadores heterossexuais e homossexuais de empresas localizadas nas regiões metropolitanas do Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, entre 2005 e 2008, no sentido de apreender suas histórias de vida. Estas foram gravadas, transcritas integralmente, e trabalhadas por meio da vertente francesa da análise do discurso. Os principais resultados revelam que o humor dos heterossexuais sobre os homossexuais gays é explícito, e aparentemente legitimado pela sociedade, já que estes são engraçados. Identificou-se que, de forma relativamente surpreendente, os próprios gays fazem piadas sobre si próprios, ratificando, por meio do riso, o estigma social. As principais conclusões apontam a necessidade de politização do humor, como forma de comunicação nas organizações, pois ele cumpre, como parte de suas funções sociais, o papel de auxiliar dos processos sociais de tolhimento e discriminação social.

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          To deal with multiple social manifestations in the organizational world, humor is an important form of communicating something, although not in an explicit way, smoothing critics and aggressions under the pretext of getting a laugh. In this paper we discuss humor as a form of manifesting discrimination of sexual orientation in the work place. Based on specialized literature about social, denotative and connotative functions of humor, and the insertion of female and male homosexuals in a professional atmosphere, we conducted a qualitative study with heterosexual and homosexual workers in companies located in the metropolitan regions of the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo from 2005 through 2008 to obtain their life stories. The interviews were recorded and fully transcribed. They were then subjected to a French discourse analysis technique. The main results suggest that heterosexual humor about gays is explicit, and it seems to be socially legitimated because gays are funny. We also found surprising evidence that gays make jokes about themselves, confirming social stigma through laughs. The main conclusions discuss the need to put humor in a political context, as a form of communication in organizations, because one of its social functions is to aid the social processes of controlling and social discrimination.

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                Journal
                rac
                Revista de Administração Contemporânea
                Rev. adm. contemp.
                Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração (Curitiba, PR, Brazil )
                1415-6555
                1982-7849
                October 2010
                : 14
                : 5
                : 890-906
                Affiliations
                [01] Rio de Janeiro RJ orgnameUNIGRANRIO Brasil
                [02] Belo Horizonte MG orgnameUFMG Brasil
                Article
                S1415-65552010000500008 S1415-6555(10)01400508
                4c61c95c-da80-449d-9bf9-6117d5035606

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 26 January 2010
                : 11 May 2009
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 56, Pages: 17
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                life stories,discrimination by sexual orientation,discrimination,humor,histórias de vida,discriminação,discriminação por orientação sexual

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